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attempts to deprive them of their tried and valued friend and pastor. 
In 1859, on the occasion of the installation of his distinguished 
friend, Mr Gladstone, as Lord Bector, the University of Edinburgh 
conferred on the Dean the degree of LL.D. In 1828-1829, he 
was one of the secretaries of the ordinary meetings of the Boyal 
Society. He subsequently became a member of Council, and in 
1859 a Vice-President. In 1861 he opened the winter session 
with an address from the chair, which was published in the Pro- 
ceedings. The only paper contributed by him to the Society’s 
General Transactions was a biographical memoir of the late Dr 
Chalmers, with whom he was on terms of intimate friendship. 
A few years ago he inaugurated a movement for erecting a statue 
of the same eminent philosopher and divine, which is now approach- 
ing completion in the studio of Mr John Steele, and is to be placed 
at the intersection of George Street and Castle Street in this city. 
The Dean’s continued interest in botanical study was evinced 
by his publishing a notice of the works and discoveries of his 
friend Sir J. E. Smith. His taste for the highest style of music, 
and his earnest desire to extend the knowledge and cultivation 
of it, led him to choose, as the subject of two lectures before the 
Philosophical Institution of Edinburgh, “ The Genius and Works 
of Handel,” They were delivered to a crowded audience in the 
Music Hall, with the assistance of illustrations by a choir, and 
were afterwards published. The Dean delivered before the same 
body a lecture on Pulpit Oratory and Orators, and pursued the 
subject thus suggested in a printed letter to a young clergyman 
on the art of clear and articulate public speaking, in which he 
was himself an unsurpassed proficient. The work, however, with 
which his name is most widely connected is his u Beminiscences 
of Scottish Life and Character.” It has gone through twenty 
editions, and more than ninety thousand copies of it have been 
sold. It is to be found on the library tables of royalty and in 
the cottage of the peasant. It is sold by the newsboys at every 
railway station. It is to be seen in the huts of new settlements 
in Western America, and of the cattle and sheep runs of New 
Zealand and Australia. It has made the Dean’s good Scottish 
name a household word in every land on which the sun shines. 
Wherever the exiled Scotchman goes, he carries with him the 
